Hey, really we just invaded Iraq to...put some freedom on your families. No really. And if that doesn't work, then we'll lock your frickin' family of malcontents up. And Shit. No, Reeeealy.

U.S. troops wanted Jeanan Moayad's father. When they couldn't find him, they took her husband in his place.

Dhafir Ibrahim has been in U.S. custody for nearly four months. Moayad insists that he is being held as a bargaining chip, and military officials have told her that he will be released when her father surrenders. Her father is a scientist and former Baath party member who fled to Jordan soon after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime
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U.S. officials deny that there is a systematic practice of detaining relatives to pressure Iraqi fugitives into surrendering. "The coalition does not take hostages," said a senior military official who asked not to be named. "Relatives who might have information about wanted persons are sometimes detained for questioning, and then they are released. There is no policy of holding people as bargaining chips."

But Iraqi human rights groups say they have documented dozens of cases similar to Moayad's, in which family members who are not accused of any crimes have been detained for weeks or even months and told that they would be released only when a wanted relative surrenders to U.S. forces.
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The senior U.S. military official declined to discuss the detention of al-Douri's relatives, saying it is a "special case with very unusual circumstances." In the past, U.S. officials had likened the detentions to those of a material witness who is held for questioning.
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The tactic, Moayad said, reminded her of Hussein's regime. "The Americans promised us that they would bring democracy and freedom. They talked about the prisoners in Saddam's time, and we expected them to do something better," she said. "But now they're doing the same thing, or even worse."

It's no wonder that the 1600 Crew went looking for lawyers like that putz at UC Berkeley to try and find loopholes in the Geneva Convention for them. Well, when regime change happens this year maybe handing a few of these Neocon asshats over to the International Criminal Courts might improve our image in the world, not to mention serving the cause of Justice ... you know that thing that the Patriot Act was put there to prevent...

Wolfie, Perle, Feith, Rummy and Preznit Shitcher-Drawz in the Criminal Dock at the Hague together after Viceroy Jerry rolls over on them. Well, a Fish can dream, right?